Anna Paquin’s Rogue has been cut from the forthcoming X-Men film (Picture YouTube)

Anna Paquin has been cut from X-Men: Days of Future Past, the film’s director Bryan Singer has revealed.

The True Blood star was due to appear as Rogue in the hotly-anticipated blockbuster but will no longer feature in the final edit after a rescue sequence – shot early on and featuring Magneto (Ian McKellen), Professor X (Patrick Stewart), and Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) – was dropped.

‘Through the editing process, the sequence became extraneous,’ Singer explained.

‘It’s a really good sequence and it will probably end up on the DVD so people can see it. But like many things in the editing process, it was an embarrassment of riches and it was just one of the things that had to go. Unfortunately, it was the one and only sequence Anna Paquin was in, the Rogue character was in.’

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But Singer was keen to stress that it had nothing to do with the 31-year-old’s acting credentials.

‘She did a fantastic job,’ he continued. ‘She was awesome in the sequence.

‘It’s very disappointing, but she’s very professional and she knows that stuff happens, particularly with material you shoot early on in production. Films evolve,’ he added to Entertainment Weekly.